摘要:
Treatment of toluene solutions of the hexahydride complex OsH6((PPr3)-Pr-i)(2) (1) With pyridine, 3-methylpyridine, and 4-triethylpyridine affords the tetrahydride derivatives OsH4(Rpy)((PPr3)-Pr-i)(2) (Rpy = py (3), 3-methylpyridine (4), and 4-methylpyridine (5)). In benzene-d(6), these compounds release the heterocycles, and the resulting unsaturated tetrahydride OsH4((PPr3)-Pr-i)(2) (2) promotes the stoichiometric and catalytic deuteration of pyridine, 3-methylpyridine, and 4-methylpyridine by means of H/D exchanges between the heterocycles and the solvent. The deuteration rates of the pyridinie C-H bonds depend upon their positions in the heterocycles. For pyridine, they increase as the C-H bonds are separated from the heteroatom. A methyl substituent has a marked negative effect on the deuteration of its adjacent C-H bonds. The kinetic analysis of the deuteration reveals that the rate-determining step for the H/D exchanges is the C-H activation of the bond that is deuterated. DFT calculations show that this step is formed by two elemental stages: the direct coordination of the C-H bond and its subsequent rupture.